Clinton Foundation will not accept foreign donations if Hillary wins general elections

Bill Clinton told foundation will only accept contributions from US citizens and independent charities if Hillary win the elections

The Clinton Foundation has announced that it will stop accepting foreign donations if Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wins the November general election, according to a media report.

Former US president Bill Clinton reportedly told his staffers in New York that the foundation will only accept contributions from US citizens and independent charities if Hillary win the elections, ABC News reported yesterday.

Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee. She along with her daughter Chelsea are the two other Directors of Clinton Foundation, which is involved in massive charity work globally.

According to ABC News, the final meeting of Clinton Global Initiative — which is the global wing of the foundation — would be held in the Big Apple in September regardless of the outcome of the November elections.

 

Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus, who along with other GOP leaders has been critical of the foreign donations received by the Clinton Foundation, said that this is too late.

"This effort to shield Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation after more than a year of controversy is too little, too late," Priebus said.

"After all, if everything was above board while Hillary Clinton ran the State Department as the Clintons have said, then why change a thing? But now that they have admitted there is a problem, the Clinton Foundation should immediately cease accepting foreign donations and return every penny ever taken from other countries, several of which have atrocious human rights records and ties to terrorism," he said.

"The fact that the Clinton Foundation and its entities continue to accept foreign donations while Hillary Clinton runs for the White House is a massive, ongoing conflict of interest that gets bigger by the day. This is unprecedented and unacceptable. When that 3 am phone call comes, Americans deserve to have a president on the line who is not compromised by foreign donations," Priebus said.